Germany’s likely next leader Friedrich Merz was set yesterday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defense ...

Germany's conservative bloc is set to begin coalition talks with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz were involved in the talks. Friedrich Merz is most likely to become the next German chancellor ...

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Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have begun exploratory talks on forming a coalition government with the Greens in Hamburg, ...

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